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Man the Measure of All Things, Sri Krishna Prem and Sri Madhava Ashish

I’ve just discovered an old classic whose title I have heard and read mentioned time and again. It’s a classic for a reason. There’s hardly a sentence that doesn’t add insight or new perspective. I’m talking about Man The Measure of All Things, by Sri Krishna Prem and Sri Madhava Ashish. I suspect this book [...]

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Is spirituality a lifestyle or a quest?

I have been pondering recently the difference between spirituality as a life style and spirituality as a quest. Consider the following Blavatsky quote (the modernized English is mine) from The Voice of the Silence, The Seven Portals: Before you stand on the threshold of the path; before you cross the foremost Gate, you have to [...]

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Rudolf Steiner and theosophy – about local versus universal wisdom

I’ve been reading ‘Rudolf Steiner Erdenleben und Werken’ (aka: Rudolf Steiner‘s earth life and works) by G. Wachsmuth. It’s a good biography, though obviously written by someone who is a fierce devotee of Steiner. He tells Steiner’s story as Steiner might have wanted it told. For my purposes this is good: I want to know [...]

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Intelligence and wisdom: not the same thing

I have grown up around smart people. You know – the kind of people that can pick and choose what to do with their lives, because they’re so talented. I’m here to tell you: some smart people are wise, some aren’t. I’m saying this because of someone’s comment on Facebook. I had put up a [...]

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Desire & spiritual development, some thoughts

Desire has a bad name in certain spiritual circles – but in others it’s hailed as the fundamental source of all spiritual growth. In that debate I’ve always stood in the first group, but from reading I.K. Taimni’s ‘The Science of Yoga’ (a commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali), I see that it’s really [...]

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When are you ready to be a 'spiritual teacher'?

Two people recently made the same remark to me. They both complained that they weren’t getting through to people. That they were getting negative responses to their spiritual path. They were rubbing people the wrong way. I told one that I felt that if she found she wasn’t reaching people, she wasn’t ready to be [...]

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Some words on daily life – a theosophical classic

Today I want to share with you all one of the classics of theosophy, a letter published as ‘written by a master of wisdom’. It’s called ‘Some words on daily life‘ and starts out: It is divine philosophy alone, the spiritual and psychic blending of man with nature, which, by revealing the fundamental truths that [...]

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Natural affinity to age – old people, young people

I think each of us has a natural affinity to people of a certain age. An astrologer told me, when I was once again trying to figure out what the heck to do with my life, that I had an affinity to kids between 7 and 14 and with old people: above 65 or something. [...]

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